secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Childrens Place, Inc. (PLCE)
CIK:        0001041859
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-11-17T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001104659-22-119722
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  negative
Materiality: 0.85
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Children's Place Q3 adjusted EPS $3.33 vs $5.43 YoY; lowers FY22 guidance to $4.05-$4.30
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- Net sales $509.1M, down 8.8% YoY; comp sales down 10%.
- GAAP EPS $3.26, adjusted $3.33; both down sharply from $5.30/$5.43 in Q3 2021.
- Gross margin 34.8%, deleveraged 910 bps on higher supply chain costs.
- FY22 adjusted EPS guidance lowered to $4.05-$4.30; Q4 guidance $0.50-$0.75.
- Inventories up 24% to $549M; repurchased 434k shares for $18M in Q3.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1041859/000110465922119722/0001104659-22-119722-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1041859/000110465922119722/tm2230700d1_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-119722

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